From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)
To: Marius Bakke <mbakke@fastmail.com>
Cc: 30734@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: [bug#30734] [PATCH core-updates 3/3] gnu: net-tools: Don't install 'ifconfig'.
Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2018 10:22:36 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87bmffkuxv.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87d0zwkl7l.fsf@fastmail.com> (Marius Bakke's message of "Thu, 22 Mar 2018 19:40:30 +0100")
Marius Bakke <mbakke@fastmail.com> skribis:
> Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> writes:
[...]
>> Sure, either that or rename it to “ifconfig.net-tools” (I think Debian
>> sometimes does things like this.)
>>
>> But, isc-dhcp depends on net-tools, and it might have scripts that
>> depend on its ifconfig, for instance. Same for virtuoso-ose, isc-bind,
>> iodine, and more.
>>
>> So all in all, your suggestion may be safer, though we should check
>> whether these things break.
>
> I like renaming it better than moving to 'sbin'. I'll try out some of
> the dependent packages and see what needs to be done. Would it be okay
> to switch to GNU Inetutils for those that require 'ifconfig'?
Sure. I think we’ll have to actually run the those tools (isc-dhcp,
etc.) to check whether their scripts work well with GNU ifconfig, though.
Ludo’.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-03-23 9:23 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-03-06 16:54 [bug#30734] [PATCH core-updates 0/3] nologin and ifconfig profile conflicts Marius Bakke
2018-03-06 16:56 ` [bug#30734] [PATCH core-updates 1/3] gnu: util-linux: Don't build 'nologin' Marius Bakke
2018-03-06 16:56 ` [bug#30734] [PATCH core-updates 2/3] gnu: util-linux: Move '.la' files to static output Marius Bakke
2018-03-06 17:04 ` Danny Milosavljevic
2018-03-06 16:56 ` [bug#30734] [PATCH core-updates 3/3] gnu: net-tools: Don't install 'ifconfig' Marius Bakke
2018-03-06 20:20 ` Danny Milosavljevic
2018-03-07 21:19 ` Ludovic Courtès
2018-03-08 20:45 ` Marius Bakke
2018-03-08 20:53 ` Ludovic Courtès
2018-03-22 18:40 ` Marius Bakke
2018-03-23 9:22 ` Ludovic Courtès [this message]
2018-03-06 20:20 ` [bug#30734] [PATCH core-updates 1/3] gnu: util-linux: Don't build 'nologin' Danny Milosavljevic
2018-03-07 21:19 ` Ludovic Courtès
2018-08-29 21:24 ` [bug#30734] [PATCH core-updates 0/3] nologin and ifconfig profile conflicts Leo Famulari
2022-03-23 15:24 ` zimoun
2022-03-23 16:19 ` zimoun
2022-04-10 11:26 ` bug#30734: " Marius Bakke
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